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The Petrified Forest is a american film of genre Drama directed by Archie Mayo released in USA on 8 february 1936 with Leslie Howard
The Petrified Forest (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Petrified Forest is a 1936 American film, directed by Archie Mayo starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. A precursor of film noir, it was adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's stage play of the same name. The screenplay was written by Delmer Daves and Charles Kenyon, and adaptations were later performed on radio and television as well.
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Alan Squier (Howard), once a respected British writer, now a disillusioned, penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the remote town of Black Mesa, Arizona, at the edge of the Petrified Forest. The diner is run by Jason Maple (Porter Hall), his daughter Gabrielle (Davis), and Gramp, Jason's father (Charley Grapewin), who regales anyone who will listen with stories of his adventures in the Old West with such characters as Billy the Kid.Actors
Leslie Howard
(Alan Squier)
Bette Davis
(Gabrielle "Gabby" Maple)
Humphrey Bogart
(Duke Mantee)
Genevieve Tobin
(Mrs. Edith Chisholm)
Dick Foran
(Boze Hertzlinger)
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